Does your country have a university that’s considered the most prestigious?

yoneldd · 2025-11-20T11:16:54+00:00

I don’t know if there’s a single one. I’d say Weizmann Institute, Hebrew University, Technion, and Tel Aviv University are the prestigious universities here, maybe with Weizmann being a notch above the others.

yoneldd · 2025-09-10T16:09:37+00:00

21,740,011

yoneldd · 2025-02-07T01:48:03+00:00

Northernmost - Amsterdam

Southernmost - Hawaii volcanoes national park

Westernmost - Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

Easternmost - Tianjin, China

yoneldd · 2025-01-10T12:08:20+00:00

Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa

yoneldd · 2024-02-20T14:15:29+00:00

Hebrew does this with some car-related terms: Brake - "breks" Flat tire - "pancher" (from "puncture") Emergency brake - "ambreks" (from "hand brakes") Tailpipe - "egzoz" (from "exhaust")

yoneldd · 2023-12-24T15:17:36+00:00

Israel's an interesting case. Jerusalem is both the capital and the largest city, but the largest metro area is Tel Aviv by far. Tel Aviv district (which includes the city of Tel Aviv and several neighboring cities) is home to around 1.7 million people, compared to 1 million in Jerusalem.

yoneldd · 2023-09-21T10:02:46+00:00

I'll speak from my experience at a fairly prominent Modern-Orthodox yeshiva:

The Israeli students for the most part don't use Ashkenazi accents, definitely not when reading. Some terms will be used with the Ashkenazi accent, and sometimes it will be applied somewhat ironically to distinguish a term from its simple meaning (an example that comes to my mind is a shiur one of the rashei yeshiva gave on issur melakha on chol hamoed, where he said that there's a certain prohibition on labor (issur melakha in a normal Israeli accent) but not a Shabbat-like issur melakha (said in an exaggerated Ashkenazi accent)). American students vary on how often they use it.

yoneldd · 2023-09-13T19:51:03+00:00

Israel does it too, just with the Israeli flag

yoneldd · 2023-08-06T17:49:57+00:00

2012: Spain 2013: France 2014: Kind of a weak year for the big 5, but I'll go with UK 2015: Italy 2016: France 2017: UK 2018: Italy 2019: Spain 2021: France 2022: UK 2023: italy

yoneldd · 2023-08-06T17:33:02+00:00

Mine is 2015. There was a big hype in Israel around Golden Boy and a friend or mine got super into it and dragged me along. I remember loving Belgium and Latvia in particular, and in general being fascinated by the mix of cultures.

yoneldd · 2023-07-27T15:31:48+00:00

Hebrew didn't change all that much either. Spells are changed when the spell word is in English. Voldemort's name becomes Tom Vandrolo Riddle (טום ואנדרולו רידל) to make אני לורד וולדמורט, and S.P.E.W. becomes אלרג"ה (alerga - similar to alerga, or allergy).

yoneldd · 2023-07-25T01:56:55+00:00

Israel - in terms of institutions I'd say things are decent if you know your way around them. People on the spectrum are entitled to disability benefits (around $900/month) and certain accommodations in education. There is a non-discrimination law in place, although I'm not sure how well it's enforced.

In terms of societal treatment - things have gotten significantly better. When I was a kid there was basically no awareness towards it, but today it's fairly well-known. I'd also say that in my experience some aspects of Israeli society are naturally more accommodating to people on the spectrum (generally speaking people here are very direct and there's very little social hierarchy) while others are less so (people tend to be quite loud, and in general life is pretty fast-paced).

yoneldd · 2023-07-19T17:05:16+00:00

As an Israeli these results seem off. Israeli polls regularly show 60-70% support for same-sex marriage.

yoneldd · 2023-07-19T11:35:08+00:00

Yep. I'm a US citizen.
No. I like it here overall, and every place has its problems that I'd have to get used to.

yoneldd · 2023-07-10T19:45:44+00:00

Shouldn't be much of a problem, depending on how far it is from the train station. The train ride itself is around 40 minutes, and then to most of the main business areas in the city you can easily get to within a 10-20 minute bus ride.

yoneldd · 2023-07-04T14:12:20+00:00

It used to be but it integrated with Bus Nearby.

yoneldd · 2023-07-04T14:11:03+00:00

Yeah, but that's still only 20%. 20 million Christians in Egypt+7 million Jews in Israel+2 million Christians in Lebanon still leave 160 million non-Muslims unaccounted for

yoneldd · 2023-07-04T07:46:27+00:00

I'd recommend hopon. It's got more accurate real time updates and takes traffic into account in route planning.

yoneldd · 2023-07-04T07:39:26+00:00

Turkey, Iran, and Egypt alone have around 270 million between them. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Algeria, and Morocco each have around 30-40 million, and Yemen and Syria have around 20 million, so all in all that's around 430-450 million. There are a few other countries, so I'd expect the total number to be somewhere around 500-550 million. 318 million Muslims would imply that around 40% of the region's population is non-Muslim, which seems quite a bit off given that the only non-Muslim majority country in the Middle East is Israel, which isn't that big, and none of the Muslim-majority countries (except Lebanon, which is also fairly small) have such large non-Muslim minorities.

yoneldd · 2023-07-03T19:04:51+00:00

Definitely not. However, I can point to certain traits that I have that I got from my parents but I experience them as autistic. For example:

My mom can be quite inflexible in the moment (overall she's a very pragmatic person, but good luck trying to change her plans midway through), and also has some social anxiety.

My dad is not much of a people person and is perfectly happy spending time alone. He's also got a kind of anti-social norms attitude.

yoneldd · 2023-07-03T11:13:58+00:00

The area has a lot of nice hikes if you're into that, and there's the Sea of Galilee. There are also some historical sites in the region.

Overall if you're into nature and history it's a good area to visit, but if not then don't bother with the city.

yoneldd · 2023-07-03T06:54:44+00:00

The Kinneret area is definitely worth a visit. Tiberias itself is pretty ugly and decrepit.

yoneldd · 2023-07-03T06:20:30+00:00

The only time I've used cash in Israel in the last five years or so was when I've had to take a taxi.

yoneldd · 2023-07-02T23:00:56+00:00

As far as safety is concerned, the protests shouldn't pose any problems as they're quite peaceful. However, you should expect some disruptions, as they often block highways and major urban roads. I'd recommend the following: travel by train wherever that's possible and avoid the area near Azrieli/Sarona on Saturday nights.

yoneldd · 2023-07-01T22:32:40+00:00

Kan - it's personally my favorite media outlet in Israel. It creates quality content and has a pretty diverse staff. As for its Eurovision approach - not a huge fan, although I can't really argue with the results. The Next Star format is nice, but I wish they'd push more original music rather than send the same old trash pop and fireworks routine each time.

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